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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Copperfield's team wearing?

2. What animal appears to have survived the creature and approaches Gordy?

3. What does she request from her base?

4. How does the creature communicate?

5. How does Lisa speculate they got there?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the creature reveal its range of knowledge and intelligence?

2. What kind of people make up the team that Copperfield brings with him?

3. What does science reveal about the victims and about the creature's use of them?

4. What is so unusual about the conditions at the Sheffield home that Frank and Gordy ask Bryce to come and look?

5. What does the group learn from examination of a sample of the Ancient Enemy?

6. How does the creature manage to get to Gordy on a personal level?

7. How does word of the situation in Snowfield leak despite Hammond's best efforts to stop it?

8. Who does the creature promise to spare, and why?

9. What happens after the helicopter drops the Biosan-4 and they spray the first representation that the A.E. sends them?

10. What is the most likely reason that Gordy was the next one who was taken, and why was it done in such a public and painful manner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Sara Yamaguchi and what are her credentials? What report does she deliver to Bryce and Jennifer after conducting a cursory autopsy of one of the bodies? What answers does this provide them? What does she determine the cause of death of most of the victims is? What other anomaly does she discover and what analogy does she draw to help them understand what she is telling them? What worries her as she is giving her report and what discoveries are made as a result?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the first of this group to be taken, and what seems to be the reason? In a search of the buildings leading to the Inn, what significant discoveries are made? How are they significant? What do these discoveries all have in common? What unexplainable phenomena is discovered during the search? Who is the second person taken and where is he taken from? What observation does Lisa make about this and how does this event change the way the group behaves?

Essay Topic 3

When Jennifer is finally able to place a telephone call, where is it from? Who does she call? How is her call received, and why is her state of mind brought into question? Why is her career and reputation important to how her information is processed? What is the response to her call, and how quickly is it launched? What does Jennifer insist she and Lisa do and what would Lisa's preference be instead? What is the reason for the stand Jennifer takes on this issue?

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